Rich’s musings on picking and eating from the wild was included in Jonathan Dunn’s newsletter as the start of a series of articles embracing the natural world and what we can get from it.
Vittles is the best foodie newsletter around with a whole host of interesting contributors as well as Jonathan’s thoughtful prose. Visit the Vittles blog to read it in full, here’s an excerpt:
“This is only my third season of foraging – a grandiose word for gathering edible stems, fruits, flowers, nuts and leaves. I use common sense, follow simple rules, learn from wiser people than myself and only collect what I know is 100% edible and from land which is not private, and is away from dogs, pavements and engine emissions.
Opening my curtains each morning has become so much more joyous than opening my Mac, as I observe nature maintaining its routines at a time when so many of us have lost ours. Whatever else is uncertain, we can be assured that the arrival of spring sunshine will awaken shoots, open leaves, unwrap flowers from their buds and pollinate stigmas for fruits and nuts, leading to the decay which sows next year’s seeds.”
Full article at Vittles
Illustration by Reena Makwana
